Imagining the Post-Antibiotics Future

After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely?

How Radioactive Poison Became the Assassin’s Weapon of Choice

Bad Blood: The mysterious life and…

23 and You

Does that commercial DNA test you just bought violate somebody else’s privacy?

The World Is Fucking Insane

Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket.

I Was Eaten Alive By Bed Bugs

My year-and-a-half battle with Cimex lectularius

Why would somebody want to remove a healthy limb?

Do No Harm: winner of the Association of British…

John Snow—Early Big Data Science

Now NASA and Really Big Data

Obesity as Illness

Despite the overwhelming scientific evidence, why do people find this idea…

Healthcare software has been a sorry joke. 

Physicians are realizing that it does not need to be…

Welcome to Bell County: Chlamydia Capitol of Texas

By Alex Wukman